By The North Africa Journal: The entire sub-region of North Africa is the hardest hit by a drought that is causing...
Social & Human Affairs Bound
Algeria: Six members of the same family die of carbon monoxide in MSila
Six members of the same family died on Sunday, 14 January 2024, at their home in the municipality of Ain El Melh in...
Mauritania: Christian group released from detention, expelled from Mauritania
Media sources report that 15 Christians leaders and their families who were arrested by Mauritania at the end of...
![The latest development on Covid-19 [21 March update]F](https://north-africa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/covid19-2-1-300x250.jpg)
The latest development on Covid-19 [21 March update]
March 21, 2020 - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: Nearly one billion people confined to...
Libya: Night-time curfew in Libya to thwart Covirus-19
Tripoli, March 21, 2020 - Libya's UN-recognised government declared a night-time curfew and closure of public spaces...
Egypt suspends religious gatherings, shuts down mosques and churches
Cairo, March 21, 2020 - Egypt's religious authorities ordered Saturday the closure of all mosques and churches and...
Tunisia’s total confinement approach
Tunis, March 20, 2020 - Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday declared a nationwide, round-the-clock self-isolation...
Africa: Beware of the chloroquine rush, warn Nigerians
Lagos, March 20, 2020 - Authorities in Nigerian megacity Lagos said Friday that hospitals had seen cases of...
Egypt’s prisons could become death traps for inmates and political prisoners
Cairo, March 20, 2020 (By Farid Farid) - In Egypt's overcrowded and putrid jails, families of prisoners fear a...
Africans doing their best to thwart Covid-19 in a tough environment
Lagos, March 20, 2020 (By Max Delany - Photo: Cape Town, Tim Johnson @timalanjohnson) - African countries led by...
Editorial: 2020, the exceptional year
Editorial by Arezki Daoud: It’s official, Covid-19 is now North Africa’s biggest problem, just as it is for the entire...
Egypt: Government shuts down the country
Cairo, March 19, 2020 - Egypt on Thursday ordered the overnight closure of cafes, restaurants, nightclubs and sporting...
WHO does not have good news for Africa, sees “worse” ahead
Ouagadougou, March 18, 2020 (AFP) - Sub-Saharan Africa on Wednesday recorded its first COVID-19 death, a high-ranking...
Moroccans brace for a period of “hibernation”
Rabat, March 18, 2020 - Morocco on Wednesday urged residents to stay home in an effort to contain the novel...
Sahel and Sub-Sahara’s first coronavirus death
Ouagadougou, March 18, 2020 (By Armel Baily with David Esnault in Abidjan) - Sub-Saharan Africa's weeks-long reprieve...
Middle East countries urged to come clean about their covid19 numbers
Cairo, March 18, 2020 - The World Health Organization urged Middle Eastern governments Wednesday to be more...
Morocco: Journalist gets prison sentence for criticizing judge in a tweet
Rabat, March 17, 2020- Moroccan journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi said Tuesday he had been handed a...
Egypt cracks down on foreign journalists for their reporting on Covid19
Cairo, March 17, 2020 - Egypt revoked the press credentials of a journalist for The Guardian and censured The New York...
Algeria prepares for a pause of the Hirak movement, president bans gatherings
Opposition figures in and outside of Algeria have been issuing statements calling for the halt in the anti-government...
Morocco arrests Salafist preacher for publicly opposing anti-coronavirus measures
The Moroccan authorities arrested Salafist Preacher Abou Naim for publicly opposing anti-coronavirus measures enacted...
Morocco: Second death and 10 more tested positive for Covid-19
A 75-year-old man, who tested positive to Covid-19, died on Tuesday, 17 March in Salé, Morocco, bringing the number of...
Tunisia goes after speculators taking advantage of the pandemic
Tunisia’s law enforcement authorities have upped their campaign to limit the damage of the speculative practices that...
Egypt: Hundreds of families north of Cairo quarantined after coronavirus death
Cairo, March 17, 2020 - Egypt has placed over 300 families under quarantine in a Delta village to stem the spread of...
Egypt: Covid-19 fallout, Hurghada resort and village in the Daqahliya on lockdown
Cairo, March 17, 2020 - Egypt on Tuesday locked down the Red Sea resort of Hurghada where a German tourist died of new...
Several Muslim countries close mosques, conservatives push back
Several Muslim countries have decided to close their mosques and ban collective prayers to protect their populations...
Authorities seek to appease population on food supply amid virus containment phase
Just as in many countries, North Africans have been flocking to their neighborhood markets, increasing their shopping...
Egypt to freeze flight activity, seeks complete closure
Cairo, March 16, 2020 - Egypt said on Monday all flights would be suspended until the end of the month to stem the...
Sahel: Mauritania also shuts down
MEA Risk Brief: Several measures have been taken by the public authorities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in...
Tunisia-16 March: Parliamentary Commission on Security and Defense Commission calls for immediate closure of all borders
Morocco-16 March: Government Minister tested positive for Covid-19
Algeria: Travel links between Algeria and Europe suspended
Algiers, March 16, 2020 - Algeria's Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad announced Monday a suspension of all scheduled...
European tourists find their way back home after getting stranded in Morocco
Rabat, March 15, 2020 - Several special flights departed Morocco Sunday taking thousands of stranded Europeans home as...
Tunisians turn to herbalists to thwart the coronavirus
Tunis, March 16, 2020 (By Kaouther Larbi) - There is no known cure for the new coronavirus, but in the medicinal herbs...
Morocco: Tourism in the time of Covid-19
Fnideq, Morocco, March 14, 2020 - Tourists were stranded in Morocco on Saturday after the kingdom announced strict...
Sahel: Couple kidnapped in Burkina Faso in 2018 regains freedom
Bamako, March 14, 2020 - A Canadian woman and her Italian partner kidnapped in Burkina Faso in 2018 have been found...
Sahel: The forced depopulation of central Mali
Mopti, Mali, March 14, 2020 (By Amaury Hauchard) - After years of ethnic massacres and unrelenting jihadist attacks,...
European expat brings first COVID-19 case to Mauritania
Nouakchott, March 14, 2020 - Mauritania has confirmed its first case of novel coronavirus, the country's health...
Libya: While COVID19-free, Libya announces preventive measures
Tripoli, March 13, 2020 - Libya's rival governments on Friday both announced a two-week closure of schools and...
Egypt: 20 killed in floods, as Egypt is unable to fix its crumbling infrastructure
Cairo, March 13, 2020 - Heavy rains and flooding have killed around 20 people in Egypt, Prime Minister Mostafa...
Egypt: Passenger trains collide in Cairo, several wounded
Cairo, March 12, 2020 - Thirteen people were injured when two passenger trains collided Thursday in the Egyptian...
Morocco suspends major travel links
MEA Risk Brief: In a drastic move aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus, Morocco announced the suspension of...
Food and grocery shopping skyrockets in Tunisia
MEA Risk Brief: The average daily purchases of food products in Tunisia, including couscous, semolina, flour, pasta,...
Algerians maintain their anti-regime protests despite COVID-19
ME Risk Brief: Large crowds surged this Friday, 13 March in Algiers and in many Algerian cities for the 56th week of...